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1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 19:34:10 EDT musicman
   Not that anyone is going to join considering Mastodon doesn't do groups, but I started the !depression group for !mentalhealth aliased also as !adhd !suicide
   
   It seems like at least in the past aliases have been less reliable than the actual name, which is which why I went with depression rather than mental health. It's not that much shorter, but I feel like two work aliases have more likelihood for typos anyway.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 19:43:52 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @musicman My experience is that group aliases don't federate (only usable on other instances with manual intervention by the other site's admin). IMO, that pretty much removes any reason to have aliases.
      1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 20:12:59 EDT musicman

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         I can use them...do the posts simply not show up at all when you do that? I'd check on loadaverage, but I'm following myself anyway.
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 22:10:33 EDT lnxw48a1

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            @musicman They work ... you can use the aliases as long as you're hosted on the same instance as the group. If you try to use one of the aliases from LoadAverage or another instance, it won't work ... unless the instance admin manually adds it.
   2. einebiene (einebiene@quitter.is)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 20:17:59 EDT einebiene

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      I did.
      1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 20:30:51 EDT musicman

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         hello, non-Mastodon user. :)
         1. einebiene (einebiene@quitter.is)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 21:11:04 EDT einebiene

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            :-) I'm a Gnusocialist